Podcasts

API Lifecycles, Specifications, and Standards with Kin Lane

On this episode of the podcast, Thomas Betts talks with Kin Lane about managing your API lifecycle using standards and specifications, including OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, and JSON Schema. These specifications and the tooling based on them can help reduce communication problems, by creating documentation, generating code, and automating testing.

Joe, Florian and Sebastian on the Indy Autonomous Challenge

The Technical University of Munich has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge. A competition for self-racing vehicles. In this we discussies the the event itself, what makes it challenging, and the approach the TU Munich took. We discuss the importance of simulation, the limits of hardware, how Docker helps crossing this gap, and the role of open source software when taking on such a challenge.

James Clark on How Ballerina Handles Network Interaction, Data, and Concurrency

Charles Humble discusses the design of the Ballerina programming language with its lead designer James Clark. They discuss how the goals of the language inform a number of design choices including: the type system, error handling, the concurrency model, and the language’s built in support for visualization of program flows.

Meenakshi Kaushik and Neelima Mukiri on Responsible AI and Machine Learning Algorithm Fairness

In the podcast, Meenakshi Kaushik and Neelima Mukiri from the Cisco team speak on responsible AI and machine learning bias and how to address the biases when using ML in our applications.

Event Driven Architectures of Scale

Wes Reisz, Matthew Clark, Gwen Shapira, and Ian Thomas discuss the evolution of event-driven architectures over the decades, the advantages that EDA offers, and thoughts for the future.

Becoming a Great Engineering Manager is Hard

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Anand Safi about making the shift from being an individual contributor to an engineering manager

Obeya Rooms for Transparency, Collaboration and Communication

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Carol McEwan and Greg Woods from iObeya about the use of Obeya spaces and the culture of transparency they encourage in organisations.

Using Data to Remove Friction in the Digital Employee

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Mike Schumacher about the impact of poor digital employee experience and using data to remove friction in the employee experience

Making Hybrid Working Work

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Nick Iovacchini of Kettle about making hybrid working work in the post-pandemic world and the ability to put people space and time together in ways that create successful experiences for employees and organisations.

The Value of Playfulness and Mindfulness in Work

In this podcast Shane Hastie, Lead Editor for Culture & Methods, spoke to Amaranatho Robey about playfulness, mindfulness and his journey from AI developer to monk to executive coach.